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Spider Web Rice Fields at Lodok Cancar Village, Flores Island, Indonesia

The rice field in Cancar, Ruteng is very unique. When viewed up close, it is just similar to common rice field. when viewed from above, the paddy fields in Cancar look like a spider web. Cancar is surrounded by hills, best place to see the spider web rice fields.
This spider web rice field is a customary tradition Manggarai Regency society in terms of the distribution of paddy fields and gardens called Lingko. Lingko is customary land that is owned together by the society, then shared individually and used them together to meet societya??s need. Customary land is distributed to members of society in accordance with custom

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Students hold on to the side steel bars of a collapsed bridge as they cross a river to get to school at Sanghiang Tanjung village in Lebak regency, Indonesia's Banten village January 19, 2012. Flooding from the Ciberang river broke a pillar supporting the suspension bridge, which was built in 2001, on Monday according to Epi Sopian the head of Sanghiang Tanjung village. Sofiah, a student crossing the bridge, says she will need to walk for an extra 30 minutes if she were to take a detour through another bridge. REUTERS/Beawiharta